Tipping-machine.



0. H. MATTICE TIPPING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. 1912.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

Aforney which meshes with a UNITED SIATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. MATTIGE, OF TROY, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ADAMS LAUNDRY MA- CHINERY COMPANY, OF TROY, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TIPPING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. MATTICE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Troy, Rensselaer county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tipping-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tipping machines, used for producing a heavy pressure of a heated body on the tips or ends of the bands of laundried collars and the like, whereby such tips are given a very smooth and high inish. To secure this result at an economical speed, say sixty tips or thirty collars per minute, the machine must be capable of producing a pressure of several thousand pounds per square inch.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, economical and durable machine for this purpose.

In the drawings, which represent a preferred form of my device, Figure 1 is an end, and Fig. 2, a front elevation of my device; Fig. 3 is a partial end view with a part removed.

In the drawings, 11, 11 are the standards of the machine, connected by bars 12.

At the inner side of each standard 11 is a bearing 13 for a main shaft 14, at each end of which is an integral eccentric extension 15.

On shaft 14 is keyed a gear wheel 16, pinion 17 on a drive shaft 18, mounted in brackets 19 bolted to the upper ends of standards 11.

On shaft 18 are fast and loose pulleys 20 connected by a belt 21 to a line shaft, not shown.

On each standard 11 is a slideway 22 supporting and guiding for vertical movement a member 23, shown as a vertically movable plate, carrying at its upper end an inverted bracket portion 24.

Through plate 23 is cut a rectangular aperture 26, in which slides a transversely movable, two-part bearing 27, in which rotates an extension 15 of main shaft 14.

Adjustably secured at the sides of slideway 22 and covering plate 23 is a ribbed face-plate 28, the upper end of which forms a horizontal stationary bed 28*.

Copies of this patent may be obtained Secured to the lower face of bracket portion 24 is a heated presser bar 29, shown as a metal box provided with internal gas tips of usual construction, not shown, and connected with external nipples 30 for the attachment of ordinary rubber gas tubes.

On the upper face of the cooperating, stationary presser part 28 may be secured a pad 81 of cloth, felt or the like.

It will be noted that the axes of the eccentric shaft ends 15 are on opposite sides of the axis of main shaft 14, so that members 23 are alternately forced downward, whereby the pressing devices at opposite ends of the machine are alternately in operative position.

The operation of the machine is already apparent. In the duplex form of the machine shown, two operators, one at each end of the machine, are employed. As each up stroke of member 23 separates the pressing parts, the tip of a collar, or the like, is inserted between them, face upward, so that on the down stroke the face side of the tip is forced against the hot box 29.

It is obvious that the pressing device at one end of the machine may be omitted, and that other mechanical alterations may be made therein, without departing from my invention, as to which, therefore, I do not wish to be limited except by the subjoined claim.

vV hat I claim is:

A tipping machine comprising a frame; a shaft in said frame; an integral eccentric at the end of said shaft; a slideway in said frame; a part movable in said slideway; two cooperating pressing parts, one of which is heated, and one of which is mounted to move in said slideway; said moving part being provided with a transverse aperture embracing the eccentric at the end of said shaft, whereby each rotation of said shaft operates to move one of said pressing parts toward the other, substantially for the purposes set forth.

CHARLES H. MATTIOE.

Witnesses:

Geo. L. COOPER, WILLIAM COLVIN, Jr.

Washington, D. G. 

